Trump is draining the Washington Swamp; what about the Catholic Swamp? Our last perfectly capable Pope abdicated for apparent political reasons, certainly not health. Was he Swamped?

All this time after the five "Dubia" questions were given to Pope Francis, and a full year after they were published to the public, the Catholic Church still stands in a morally confused state, still awaiting the Pope's response and the restoration of Moral Clarity that can only be provided by a Pope.

Providing Moral Clarity for the whole Church is an essential, if not the essential duty and responsibility of a Pope.

The five questions are quite easy for any Catholic to answer. But the correct answers, according to unchanging Catholic Doctrine, are not found in the English translation of Amoris Laetitia. At least in the English translation, all of these five topics seem to oppose long existing doctrine.

That's the problem.

The only language I am capable of abusing and misusing is English, and I am certainly no master of that one language. However, in my poor scholarly way, I have answered all five questions, back in the Dubiosity page, as Yes; No; No; No; and No. In accordance with the English translation of Amoris Laetitia. Very easy; nothing to it but to do it.

If I can do it, then ...

The most obvious and simple conclusion that may be drawn from Francis' failure to respond by this late date is that he refuses to respond; he will not respond, and he will not restore Catholic Moral Clarity to his own words which were published to the whole Catholic world.

Indicating that he intends something other than Moral Clarity.

Battle lines are being drawn inside the Roman Catholic Church over this.

The "Francis Faction" condemns those who still teach and protect all the original doctrines as fanatics about doctrinal clarity. In Francis' Homily at Casa Santa Marta on Friday, May 19, 2017 he indicated that it is the Church's responsibility to provide moral clarity, seemingly and perhaps unwittingly condemning himself. And he further indicated that the "fanatics" were turning doctrine into ideology. Or interpreting it as if it were ideology. Or something. The gist of it seemed to be that, as condemned ideologues rather than as simple defenders of doctrine, they were failing in fidelity to the Magisterium; to Peter, the Bishops and the Holy Spirit.

I'm confused. Personally, I would be honored to be called a fanatical defender of Catholic Doctrine. It that's an ideology, it's a pretty good one.

But it gets worse; the anti-doctrine faction, or the anti-Moral Clarity faction (you be the judge) is now pushing for a commission to develop a new Catholic Mass in which Catholics and Protestants may participate together. In Exiling Traditionalists we find this new attack, even as the Catholic world remains in moral confusion regarding the teaching of Amoris Laetitia.

It just gets worse and worse.

The five Dubia question can be summarized into one simple, direct question, as follows:

Is it licit, while remaining in a state of mortal sin with no change to one’s life habits,
to receive Holy Communion?

Very simple; nothing to it. Every Catholic, from the lowest layman to the Roman Pontiff, should be able to answer that very simple Catholic question with one word and without the slightest hesitation.

So what's the real problem here?

A mere 12 years after the Luther posted his 95 Theses, which was the recognized birth of the Protestant Reformations (plural purposely used) the various Reformers met at a castle in Germany to try to resolve their doctrinal differences and speak with one voice, representing the new "Reformed" Church they had created.

And they failed. Miserably.

They had not only abandoned the Magisterial authority of the Church Christ founded, but they had condemned it, and they stood opposed to it. They therefore had no basis for maintaining doctrinal clarity. Each "Reformer" was his own Pope; each Protestant "Interpreter" of Scripture was his own "Denomination".

At this historic meeting, which was supposed to be ecumenical and unifying, the various Reformers very nearly came to blows. Violence was only narrowly avoided. This was the setting of the debate between Zwingli and Luther regarding the True Presence, in which Luther famously pounded his fist on the table, and drew a picture of the Sacred Host, and shouted the quote, "THIS IS MY BODY!"

To no avail. They left the meeting in a worse and more antagonistic relationship than before. And Protestantism continues to split and multiply denominations to this day. Because they have no central authority, and thus they have no clarity.

Is that what the Francis faction is really after today, in the current Catholic Church? An end to doctrinal clarity, and the development of independent dioceses with differing doctrinal teachings, as in Protestantism, so that the laity may choose the Diocese most convenient to their personal chosen "lifestyles"?

Denominationalism within Catholicism?

Every-man-for-himself Catholicism?

This cannot stand.

I don't know what we laymen can do about it other than pray for a Catholic Swamp Draining.

We don't normally think of our Church as a political organization, per se, but, human beings being the flawed creatures that they are, it is reasonable to assume that the hierarchy is and always was "political" and made up of differing ideological political factions. That the politics are ecclesial rather than civil does not change the fact that they are politics.

As we have shown in other pages, Pope Francis himself has delved into civil politics, revealing that he favors the Marxist over the American view of government.

That is, he favors a dependent population in need of being taken care of by a large and all-powerful government, over a self-reliant population almost totally independent of a much smaller and less authoritarian government. And, he favors Globalism over Nations. He has made this quite clear.

We might wish that he was equally as clear on Church Doctrine.

Pray for a Catholic Champion to arise from all of this, or for a turning.

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